Mark S. Komrad

Recipient of the "National Exemplary Psychiatrist Award" and named "Mental Health Professional of the Year" in 2013 by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) , Dr. Komrad is a psychiatrist on teaching faculty of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of Maryland and Tulane. He earned his undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics at Yale University, his M.D. degree at Duke Medical School, and trained in internal medicine and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. He was an attending psychiatrist on a Treatment Resistant Psychotic Disorders Unit 15 years, and ran the Ethics Consultation Service and Hospital Ethics Committee for the largest non-profit mental healthcare system in Maryland for 25 years . He has twice won the Carol Davis Ethics Award from the American Psychiatric Association. He has a private practice in general psychiatry with a special interest in treating mood disorders and schizophrenia. His technique is to combine psychopharmacology and psychotherapy, a combination treatment that has become increasingly rare in the contemporary managed-care environment. In particular, Dr. Komrad uses these techniques to help people with serious, major mental illness rehabilitate to a higher level of functioning. He often consults to colleagues on difficult cases. Dr. Komrad has developed a particular speciality helping families convinced troubled loved-ones to get psychiatric evaluation and treatment.

He has lectured throughout the country on a variety of topics in psychiatry. Dr. Komrad also appears widely on TV and radio  to discuss topics in psychiatry and teaches psychiatry to residents and primary care physicians. He has been the host of a nationally syndicated, weekly radio talkshow about psychiatry, and regularly appeared on a medical talkshow that broadcasted to over 40 million listeners around the world and now appears regularly on NPR. In addition, Dr. Komrad has served as consultant in the development of a major Hollywood film and a dramatic TV serial, both about psychiatrists, consulted on books and screenplays and even played the part of a psychiatrist in a movie- all in an attempt to create more accurate portrayals of psychiatrists and the mentally ill on TV and in the movies,.

Dr. Komrad was elected by his peers to the prestigious "American College of Psychiatrists" an organization of 750 psychiatric leaders who have "demonstrated outstanding competence and achieved national recognition." He was also named as a "Distinguished Fellow" of the American Psychiatric Association-- a special distinction, "for exceptional contributions to the community and the profession of psychiatry." He was voted by professional peers and profiled as "One of Maryland's Top Mental Health Practitioners" by Baltimore Magazine, and separately named as one of the "Top Doctors," in Baltimore by that publication.

Watch Dr. Komrad's lecture about his book: http://tinyurl.com/pjxn2mm